“He was awesome,” Lin told The Associated Press. “It was like a president was visiting, you know? He had a big entourage! But it didn’t matter because he was so into it. He had to wait around all day because it was one day we were shooting like three different scenes and, it was also credit to Jeff because … he just nailed it every time.”

Lin followed up with a tweet today, praising Bezos as one of the “passionate people” who added to the experience of directing “Star Trek Beyond.”

The movie is due to open Thursday night, and word has it that some of the folks at Blue Origin are already getting a preview.

We found out about Bezos’ screen time last weekend, when word filtered out from movie previews and cast listings. AP reported that his character appears in a single tracking shot. But Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk in the rebooted “Star Trek” franchise, said Bezos’ presence on the set still loomed large.

“I was there for the bit with his, like, nine bodyguards and three limos. It was really intense. … I had no idea who he was. Not a clue. But he was obviously very important,” Pine told AP.

Bezos has been a “Star Trek” fan since his childhood, and he’s also said the voice-enabled computers on the show helped inspire the Amazon Echo speaker and the Alexa voice recognition agent.

In addition to founding Amazon, Bezos started up a rocket venture called Blue Origin that is in the midst of testing a suborbital spaceship. Bezos’ ultra-long-term goal is to have millions of people living and working in space. Just like in “Star Trek.”